Temporary Sameness

16/02/2019 - 04/05/2019

Zilberman Gallery is pleased to present Zeynep Kayan’s latest solo exhibition, “Temporary Sameness”. Her third solo exhibition at Zilberman Gallery is on view at the main gallery in Mýsýr Apartment in Istanbul between the dates 16 February – 4 May 2019.

Zeynep Kayan’s artistic practice focuses on exploring the variations of a repetitious structural setup through photography, video and sound pieces in relation to portraiture and performance. In her previous work, she reveals the change and the desire for movement embedded in the production process as she disturbs the surfaces of images. Her works that are produced for “Temporary Sameness” carries the movement from the surface of the image to the “within” by trying to treat the body as yet another material.

The video works and the screenshot photographs from them complete each other and aim to exhaust the possibilities of material and movement. Kayan takes the camera as a mirror and watches her own body during her experiments with movement; in the recorded processes of temporary experimentation, spontaneous elements intertwine with setup choreographies. While the audience encounters with Kayan's simultaneous decisions, the screenshots represent the selected moments from these processes and the image transforms into a material that is repeated, deconstructed and divided.

Kayan, in interaction with objects like pipes, mirrors, scissors, heat insulators in her almost performative videos, sometimes mimics these objects, tries to fit into the voids they create and at other times hides behind them. The body, which defines itself through the surrounding objects and is the source of movement doesn’t represent a portrait of Kayan but is rather an indifferent, neutral figure without an identity. During movement experiments in empty spaces, the posture cannot help but blend in with the materials used, while the objects lose their functions and turn into mere matter. The videos, in which it is not clear where the body is positioned, play with the viewer’s sense of space: Is the body stuck in a corner, is it upside down, is it laying or is it standing up?

For further information about the exhibition, please contact Naz Beþcan: naz@zilbermangallery.com